For the past 20 years, Don Southerton has been providing business and legal consulting, and expert witness service with a focus on U.S. and South Korea business.
Don Southerton
Services Provided
Southerton provides strategy, expert opinion testimony, litigation testimony, and case review for the Defense and Plaintiff. Moreover, he has extensive experience in preparing and executing U.S-South Korean MOUs, LOIs, NDAs, and Licensing and Business Agreements for startups, SMEs and those international in scope.
Experience
As a legal consultant, Southerton has worked on cases involving IP, Trade, Commercial Law, International Family Law, Labor Law, and Personal Injury and Wrongful Death. By virtue of his education, experience, training, and skills courts in Illinois, Pennsylvania, and California have accepted his testimony and expertise.
Professionally, Southerton is an author, advisor, consultant, and strategist working with most of the top Korea-based global corporations, along with major western firms that have ventures with South Korea.
In addition, Southerton has advised and supported Korean Ministry of Knowledge, The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy—KOTRA and Invest Korea, and U.S. Korea Connect (the Korean Embassy in Washington, DC).
Don’s expertise has been extensively covered in The Economist, Bloomberg TV, The BBC World News, US Korea Connect, eFM Seoul, The Wall Street Journal, Korea Times, Yonhap, Forbes, CNN Fortune, and a growing number of local American and global media sources.
His most recent book Korea 2020: A Workplace in Transition shares current South Korean corporate workplace trends and the impact of Change, specifically among the major Chaebol.
Clients have included:
Hyundai Motor America and Hyundai Motor Company, Korea
Kia America
Mobis Parts America and Mobis Parts Korea
HATCI ( Hyundai R&D)
Hyundai Capital
LG Electronics USA
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Law Firms
Alston & Bird LLP
BOIES, SCHILLER & FLEXNER LLP
Susman Godfrey LLP
Crowell & Moring LLP
ROBINS, KAPLAN, MILLER & CIRESI L.L.P.
Perkins Coie LLP
Wood, Smith, Henning & Berman LLP
Education
B. A. History. University of Colorado, Denver. With honors, Magna cum laude
M. A. History. University of Colorado, Denver.
Post Graduate Study
University of Southern California (USC).
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).
Intercultural Institute of California, San Francisco (IIC).
University of California at San Diego (UCSD).
Studies Business Law at University of Southern California Gould School of Law
On a personal level, Don is accomplished martial artist and master instructor, a former coach and instructor at the United States Military Academy at West Point, and an inductee in the Official Taekwondo Hall of Fame. In his free time, Don is a climbing enthusiast based in Golden, CO.
Contact Information
Don Southerton
5956 Dunraven CT.
Golden, CO 80403
1-310-866-3777
Dsoutherton@bridgingculture.com
Offices in Golden, CO, and Seoul, South Korea
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